About us

We are Terry & DT - a middle-aged couple from Oregon. We have been married since the Carter Administration, yet still seem to tolerate each other (most of the time) within the confines of our motorhome. We spend about half of each year in our motorhome - usually one or two months at a time - and the rest of the year we spend at our home near Portland, Oregon. We have one grown daughter, the Lovely Lisa. Lisa lives in California, with her little dog, Reese (photo, right, was taken in our motorhome). We travel often to visit Lisa, and we sometimes dog-sit our Grand Dawg when Lisa travels on business.

Much of our young married life was spent overseas, where DT's job took us to The Philippines and Taiwan for several years. After returning to the United States, we realized we had seen much of the world, but not too much of America. The rest of the world is wonderful, but the beauty of America and the interesting people of our native country needed to be discovered! We knew the best way to see the US would be in a recreational vehicle - the same way I traveled as a kid with my parents.

Niagara Falls

We started RVing in a ruby-red VW pop-top, and finally graduated to a small travel trailer. When DT retired, we bought a 38’ foot motorhome and drove it all over the country for several years. After realizing this was the lifestyle we wanted to pursue and that we were going to spend as much time on the road as we would at home, bought a 40-foot bus and then... well... we started shopping for the “perfect” motor home. Of course, the "perfect RV" will never be found, but this RV is perfect for us. Now we travel in a 2009 Country Coach Magna. We love our Magna. She is equipped with a large kitchen - because I love to cook - and a full office for The Camping Journal business. We added satellite internet to the roof so I can ship book orders from anywhere there is a post office. We tow a (usually very dirty) Honda CRV.

Read our RV travel blog - Postcards from the Road - at RVGoddess.com

This roadrunner is made of trash from the Las Cruces, New Mexico landfill

We have visited 47 states - excluding (obviously) Hawaii, Alaska (soon!) and for some odd reason, Missouri - in our RV. (We are still not sure how we missed Missouri!) We often use our RV to attend track & field events - our big passion - but you can also find us on a hiking trail, a golf course, in a museum, a farmers market or other sporting events. I am a food and travel writer, specializing in the western United States. My other interests include needlepointing, hiking, golf, George Washington University Basketball, University of Oregon Track & Field - and Jimmy Buffett. (I am a huge Parrothead!) One of the most important aspects of RV travel we both enjoy is discovering regional food specialties, restaurants, produce and local food purveyors. I love to photograph the food we eat - so there is plenty of evidence as to my figure!

In Vermont

After we started spending so much time in our RV, I wasn't happy with the few RV log books available. They were too small and they just didn't work! After five years of testing, I published The CAMPING JOURNAL - and feel it has everything needed to log your RV travels in one quality book. Plus, it is flexible enough to use in many different ways - no matter how you travel in your recreational vehicle.

I am very proud of the CAMPING JOURNAL and proud to offer it to you! Whether on the road or at home, I ship CAMPING JOURNALS Monday through Friday, and have never missed a shipment! So check your post-mark - you never know where we will be! The CAMPING JOURNAL is a cottage industry... except our "cottage" has wheels!

We love to meet Camping Journal customers, so if you see us on the road, please stop in to say hello.